Re: Nested Relations / RVAs / NFNF

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:<xq6dne-Mht9wAR7cRVn-gg_at_comcast.com>...
> "Tony Douglas" <tonyisyourpal_at_netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:bcb8c360.0410300511.1c98e370_at_posting.google.com...
>
> > Well, *that's* mnemonic, I'm sure ... !
>
> Ha, ha!
>
> It reminds me of the various programs that output "Hello World". It starts
> with a kid in grade school using Basic.
> It then progresses through the various stages of the kid's career: high
> school, college, junior programmer, senior programmer, and using various
> languages: Pascal, C, COBOL, C++, etc. The program gets progressively more
> obtuse and obscure.
>
> The last stage is when our hero has become a manager. It shows a "project
> outline" for a project to write a program that outputs "Hello World",
> complete with milestones, deadlines and required progress reports! surely
> this must be on the web somewhere!

I shudder to think what the canonical "Hello World!" program looks like in Xdb2. D'you think it normalises each character or something ? No doubt Mr Neo will oblige... Received on Sat Oct 30 2004 - 21:39:46 CEST